AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 293, 20 April 1894, Page 2

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MORE RICH GOLD FINDS. | ARREST OF AN ABSCONDER. J MORE FATAL FLOODS. ! PRESS ASSOCIATION I. Brisbane, This Day. A tornado passed over a portion of the Bowen district. It appeared first iv the shape of a waterspout which broke on Flagstaff Hill with a loud report and throwing lm^e boulders and trees about. The tornado left a track 40 feefc wide. Heavy rain has fallen at Townsville, and some parts of the town are flooded and a man named Bruce was drowned. Sydney, * pril 19. The alluvial gold hud at Blayney is yielding Ik to 2 ounces per dish. A man named Gogging has been arrested for complicity in the Alcock diamond robbery in August last. This Day. In the Legislative Council the Bill to prevent the improper use of the title " bank " has been withdrawn, the Government uudertali ing to keep the matter in view when dealing with banking legislation. The dispute between the owners of the Vale colliery and the men has been settled by arbitration and work resumed. The congregation of St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church have invited Mr JoSt N. iFergnsson, of luvercargill, to succeed I)r Steel. MfLBOUttNE, This Day. Advice has been received that Keiup, late Secretary to the Victorian Treasury Tender Board, who absconded after embezzling large sums of money, la? been arrested iv South Africa. It is generally belieyod he left the colony in the barque (which was recently wrecked at Durban, on the Eaat Coast of Africa.